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The Man Who Egged King Charles

It Could Happen Here

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The Importance of Direct Democracy in Addressing Climate Change

If we can take a lesson out of the last 30 years, it's that the standard electoral methods cannot provide the solution to climate change. They simply aren't going to do it. The vision you're putting forward, not to say that it's that simple, but it's effortful. It seems more realistic than hoping that we can just all kind of keep putting our 20 minutes of voting a year towards solving the problem and expect it to get better. And so much sometimes depresses me to think about how many people are working for environmental charities where their work is going towards creating policy proposals for politicians to ignore.

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